When did fusionfall shut down full#

'It felt irresponsible to be the only venue open in the area - we wanted to also show solidarity with other local venues. 'Everyone's playing it very, very safe,' Johnson says. Leading up to the decision, many ticket holders were requesting refunds to a Boxing Day third-party event at the venue, making it unsustainable. 'We made the difficult decision so as to protect staff and customers.' 'We've just seen venues in our area - Chippendale, Redfern, Waterloo - shutting early as they've had COVID cases and staff getting sick,' owner Benjamin Johnson says. 'Even though they haven't mandated everyone stay home, so many people are in self or mandated isolation, this is a lockdown in all but name,' he says.ДЄre you fully protected from COVID-19 if you haven't had your booster? 'Wherever stays open will have the next outbreak'Д¬hippendale's Lord Gladstone Hotel has closed its doors till New Year's Eve, and will reassess nearer the time. Murphy will lose unavoidable fixed costs: graphic design, photography, advertising and promotional costs associated with running large events, and won't earn any ticket revenue. NSW has reinstated mask mandates and the one person per 2 square metre rule for indoor venues, which will further affect hospitality. 'By saying we should take responsibility, he's shirking his own.' He's supposed to lead us through this,' Murphy says. 'It's pretty off to put all this responsibility back on us. He does, however, have a message for NSW Premier Dominic Perrottet. Safety of guests and staff is paramount.' It's coupled, he says, with an understanding things simply cannot proceed in the current rapidly changing environment 'There's this feeling of helplessness, hopelessness and just wondering when is this ever going to end?' 'You get in this really bad headspace, thinking, why am I even bothering to look forward to anything any more?' he says. 'That's DJs, drag queens, performers and staff all out of work.' 'It feels devastating, soul destroying,' he says. Here's what happened over the weekend as the world reacted to the new variant.

What we know about the new variant of COVID-19, Omicron.His New Year's Day event I Remember House is, at this stage, still going ahead at The Imperial Hotel in Sydney and The Emerson in Melbourne on January 2, but Murphy's gut feeling is they'll be cancelled, given the trend. The venue take-over events were to take place at The Burdekin on Boxing Day, The Beresford on January 3 and The Oxford Hotel imminently, all hosting up to 1,000 patrons.

Catch up on the main COVID-19 news from JanuaryВ 24 with a look back at our blogД®vent promoter Dan Murphy has just cancelled three major upcoming events in a single day and refunded all guests. The fully booked restaurant, due to serve 300 customers daily, saw a staff member contract COVID, plunging 25 fully vaccinated employees on the same shift into a week's isolation and forcing the Asian fusion eatery to close due to staff shortage. Matt Sinclair, owner of Noosa's Sum Yung Guys in Noosa, posted an emotional video in which he tearily announced the Queensland restaurant had no choice but to close in the busiest week of the year, less than two weeks into the state's border reopening. Venues nationwide are facing tough choices. There's bound to be a lot of hospo staff hoping Santa will bring their rent for Christmas.' 'It feels devastating, soul destroying' 'Once again hospitality and arts/entertainment are the first industries affected,' he says.

When did fusionfall shut down full#

It's those staff who rely on their hospitality wage for their main or full income Mack, who also works full time in digital marketing, feels most for. It ruins income I'd planned and will impact everything.'ДЄs this isn't a government-mandated lockdown, no financial support is available to cover the income gap. 'That'll be 24 hours of scheduled work at public holiday rates, gone. 'My shifts are still on for a lit NYE weekend, but looking at these trends, I'll be amazed if that doesn't change,' he says.